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Don't lose your head in Marie Antoinette's boudoir
Government reopens last queen of France's stately rooms to the public after expensive refurbishment.
02 July 2023 - 00:00
The first person to turn the celebrity of Marie Antoinette to profit after her death by guillotine on the Place de La Concorde in another bloody and irrational shift in the French Revolution was Madame Tussaud. The venerable waxwork artist was 19 years old at the time; the unfortunate queen was 38 and in two pieces, her head very much separated from her body and about to be interred in the common grave with all the other people who'd met their fates that day at the cutting edge of popular justice...
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